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CCD imaging at Landeryd observatory (ÖAS)

Landeryd observatory, just outside Linköping, is housing a permanently mounted Meade f/10 12" LX200. I've worked a lot with this this computerized telescope, major part is with CCD imaging. The one-shot-color Starlight-Xpress MX5-C CCD is often used in combination with a Meade f/3.3 focal reducer,

The LX200 rest on a super-wedge to allow polar alignment, which is a necessity for precise tracking during CCD imaging, and also saves us the cost for a field de-rotator.

A small 4" MCT with 1000 mm focal length mounted piggyback on the LX200 is being used as a guidning scope. Nowadays we (i.e. Magnus Nyborg and me) use the MX5-C as an autoguider, attached to the 4" MCT. As main camera we use Magnus' Starlight-Xpress MX7-C, which is 

Currently there are only two members of ÖAS that are involved in CCD imaging; me and my friend Magnus Nyborg. Magnus has his own homepage with some astronomy stuff here. Every now and then the light polluted sky over Linköping clears, and if school and work allows, me and Magnus drive out to the observatory and shoot some images of maybe 2 or 3 objects. 

New images (27 Aug. 2000-)

	Saturn (NSST)
	M51		Comet Machholz
	NGC3628		M65
	NGC4449		NGC4656
	NGC4725		NGC3718
	NGC4565		NGC4631
	M57		NGC2903
	NGC891		NGC7009
	Asteroid Winchester time-lapse!		NGC1514
	Comet Ikeya-Zhang		NGC5907
	NGC6643		NGC6217
	Jupiter		NGC4088
	M1		Saturn
	NGC2392		NGC7635
	M82		NGC7662
	NGC6015		NGC214
	NGC6503		M76
	NGC7814		Stephan's Quintet
	NGC6781		NGC925
	NGC7479		Cygnus
	NGC6543		NGC6826
	NGC7000		M57
	Orion wide angle		M88
	M97, Owl nebula		Jupiter
	Venus		M45
	M42, Trapezium		B33, Horsehead nebula
	M74		NGC7331
	NGC6946		M27
	M13		M15

Old images (28 Aug. 1999 - 6 May 2000)

	Jupiter		M57
	M27,  one of the first CCD images ever from Landeryd Obervatory		M82